Publisher's Synopsis
 
What was life like for Irish Protestants between the mid-seventeenth and the late-eighteenth centuries?  How did experiences differ for peers, squires and gentlemen, for soldiers and shopkeepers, for women and servants?  In this eagerly awaited  study, Toby Barnard scrutinizes social attitudes and structures in every segment of Protestant society during this formative perriod.  His richly textured account, drawing on a wide and deep trawl of contemporary sources, focuses on people, their preoccupations and their material worlds.  The book abounds with entertaining episodes and memorable characters while reassessing Ireland's place in the British state and empire and comparing it to other European and colonial societies of the time. 
 
Yale University Press; 2003. Hardcover with unclipped dust cover. Binding tight and text clean. Excellent condition. Illustrations and maps.  Pre-owned. ISBN: 0300096690